The switch to IGT was done to have it more accessible for everyone so they won't need to use livesplit in case they can't use it. If they just want to record a run they can do it. I was inspired from Power Rangers Battle for the Grid which is what they do and thought it would be good to do IGT of round time totals.

I didn't have emulator not allowed because it's only recently few years 360/PS3 emulator could be done decently. And emulator is not trustworthy and clearly has different loads thus is not accurate to console. And that's why it's banned now.

It wasn't done to have records and caring so much about them is not healthy to do. It was so more people can do runs. I went and improved my runs thus why they are now faster.